New parking meters on Market Street! Pay by inserting coins or swiping credit or debit card. http://t.co/x9C3Ao8kRQ pic.twitter.com/97vw0Fc4bM
— Mayor Rogero (@MayorRogero) July 24, 2014
New parking meters on Market Street! Pay by inserting coins or swiping credit or debit card. http://t.co/x9C3Ao8kRQ pic.twitter.com/97vw0Fc4bM
— Mayor Rogero (@MayorRogero) July 24, 2014
7 comments:
Cool Hand Luke could have branched out into identity theft.
Never live in a town without meterless streets.
Invitation to identity theft.
In my town, they replaced the (perfectly good) regular parking meters with meters located in the middle of the block so you have to park and then walk over to where the ticket stand is to buy your ticket. Pointlessly expensive and inconvenient and an invitation to identity theft.
WHY? Because. My local government hard at "work" ... feathering their nests.
Is Knoxville the last city in the US to install these?
Hazy memory of a 60 minute broadcast about a small town that installed parking meters. Town officials began obsessing over revenues and becoming PITAs. Citizens finally had enough and I think they dissolved the town charter.
Chicago parking meters became a libertarian's wet dream,privatized but to some some murky company with connections of course. When public, meters were fed during business hours 6 days a week.
Private meters had rates quadruple, meters to be fed 24/7 with the city being on the hook or any street closures including parades or construction and repairs. Also meter maid salaries and benefits still a public responsibility.
We've had these all over L.A for years. Your credit card is not secure anywhere, and the easiest and most common theft is when you hand it to a human - the damned dirty apes.
I haven't seen a parking meter in decades.
That's one of the benefits of not travelling.
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